ground-laurel

The two which, throughout the Northern Atlantic States, divide this interest are the _Epigaea repens_ (May-flower, ground-laurel, or trailing-arbutus) and the _Hepatica triloba_ (liverleaf, liverwort, or blue anemone).

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

The pipsissiwa and ground-laurel are in bud; the last has its buds full-sized, and the calyx opening to show the tips of the flowers, but these are only faintly touched with pink on the edge; unfolding them, we found the petals still green within.

Rural Hours 1887

The ground-laurel is in flower-bud, and the buds are quite full.

Rural Hours 1887

The first trip to the woods, after the snow has gone, is generally in quest of these berries; a week or two later, they go upon the hills for our earliest flowers – ground-laurel and squirrel-cups; a little later, they gather violets, and then again, the azalea, or "wild honeysuckle," as they call it, to which they are very partial.

Rural Hours 1887

Found pipsissiwa and a ground-laurel, with their flowers in bud; the first plant blooms regularly about Christmas in some parts of the country, but I have never heard of its flowering here in winter.

Rural Hours 1887

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps,

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps,

The Frost Spirit and Others from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Round the boles of the pine-wood the ground-laurel creeps,

Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

"Everybody makes such a fuss about ground-laurel!" said I. "I don't see why, I'm sure.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

Hide in their bells, a soft aerial blue, "-- ground-laurel being a local name for trailing arbutus, called also mayflower, and squirrel-cups for hepatica, or liver-leaf.

The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879